I have, for years, gone to an original fiction site that used a different system, but one that I think might work and would protect rare pairs etc.
They had the fic. searchable by categories, and you could post reviews--pretty much like a standard archive. However, then they also had a section called "Top Lists" and if you clicked that, you could then click on the categories as before, but instead of getting an alphabetical list of all fic in that category, you'd get a list that showed the highest rated fic in that category. It was simple to access and use and it was category specific. That way you'd be able to read what (for example) Harry/Luna readers thought were the best Harry/Luna stories. The fic.'s were ranked by the reviews that had been left (which allowed you to rank the fic. on a 1-5 scale I think).
I think this system requires more backend work when you're setting up the archive, but it would be fairly self-sustaining once the code was written.
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They had the fic. searchable by categories, and you could post reviews--pretty much like a standard archive. However, then they also had a section called "Top Lists" and if you clicked that, you could then click on the categories as before, but instead of getting an alphabetical list of all fic in that category, you'd get a list that showed the highest rated fic in that category. It was simple to access and use and it was category specific. That way you'd be able to read what (for example) Harry/Luna readers thought were the best Harry/Luna stories. The fic.'s were ranked by the reviews that had been left (which allowed you to rank the fic. on a 1-5 scale I think).
I think this system requires more backend work when you're setting up the archive, but it would be fairly self-sustaining once the code was written.